In a file photo, members of the audience listen to a speaker at a rally organized by National Conference of Dalit Organizations in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2005. Dalits, who belong to the ...

Dalit rights outfits on Thursday protested outside the Kangra deputy commissioner’s office in Dharamshala, warning the government of a bigger agitation if “justice” is not done within 15 days in the ...

India's Supreme Court prides itself on defending the rights of Dalits - historically the country's most oppressed citizens. But a new study argues that the court's own language has frequently ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Dalit man has killed himself in western India in a fresh protest over land, as a campaign for land rights for the low-caste community widened across the country ...

As a young girl growing up in Ajmer, a small town in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, journalist and author, Yashica Dutt, 38, says that she was painfully aware of the many sacrifices her mother ...

A Church delegation has urged a federal government-appointed panel to extend India’s affirmative action benefits to socially poor Dalit Christians, whose ancestors were considered untouchable in the ...

In this photograph taken on May 5, Indian relatives mourn following the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl just days earlier in Chatra district of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. Police ...

Besides stating that global or cosmopolitan citizenship is an incoherent concept in the absence of a global state, some critics assert that it represents a form of Western-centric moral neoimperialism ...